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Department Of Homeland Security To Scan Payment Cards At Borders And Airports
Forbes ^ | 11/07/12 | Jon Matonis

Posted on 11/11/2012 2:03:57 PM PST by grumpygresh

Enforceability falls to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection both within the Department of Homeland Security, which is already developing advanced handheld card readers that can ascertain whether a traveler is carrying a credit card, debit card, or prepaid card. This differentiation is important because only prepaid card balances will need to be added to declaration report forms.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: customs; homelandsecurity
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To: gaijin

Pre customs protocol: take 2 or 3 viagra,wait 40 minutes. Put on sheer leotards and cowboy boots. Maybe a cowboy hat.

Before entering the customs check,watch 20 minutes of sloppy delicious porn on a portable player in a phone bank. Get really good and revved up to FULL SALUTE,if ya know what I mean. Bring things around to as they were when you were 14.

Enter the customs area,full salute. Continue impure thoughts.

As you approach the pat down,flare your eye-balls wide like Liberace,and flounce a bit.

GRIN REALLY WIDE.

They’re trying to condition and degrade you a little,right? Why not share the love?”

Do this at the airport. Pretend to be embarrassed when they try to “pat” you down...

(ROTFLMAO :D )


41 posted on 11/11/2012 3:38:27 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: 3Fingas

“Our social security number has been that for a quite a while now. Our credit history and Internet usage can all be monitored and used to silence dissent.”

Yes, but technology cannot be used to ensure only eligible voters vote in an election to assure it’s not stole. Just look at last Tuesday.


42 posted on 11/11/2012 3:41:14 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: grumpygresh; All

cheap solution

shoule have these anyway - as crooks also have ‘readers’ to scan your card info - while in your pocket

http://www.corporatetravelsafety.com/catalog/rfid-blocking-credit-card-passport-sleeves-p-1284.html


43 posted on 11/11/2012 3:43:07 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

>Two words: RFID wallet. Lots of them out there.

I have one I bought on Amazon for about $20 after reading about cyber criminals stealing credit card info using scanners at gas stations and coffee houses.


44 posted on 11/11/2012 3:47:02 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: grumpygresh; All

Even cheaper - make your own frequency blocker

http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/RFIDWallet.php


45 posted on 11/11/2012 3:47:09 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does.)
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To: grumpygresh

Family, friendship and trust have long been used to overcome tyranny.

Say you are friends with another family in a different country. When they come to visit you put them up in a nice hotel of their choosing, you take them out to dinner every night and pick up the tab, and you act as guide for tourist sites, paying their way for expensive recreations.

Other than the cost of travel, they pay only for small things.

Then when you and your family visit their country, they show you the same courtesies, to a similar value. In effect you have each carried thousands of dollars across borders, but without doing so.

And this applies to much more than tourism.


46 posted on 11/11/2012 3:50:10 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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To: ldish

After they’ve patted you down and viewed the scanner, they’ll know everything about your stuff. Just wait until they post it on the internet and the world will know.


47 posted on 11/11/2012 4:36:00 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: Chickensoup
"So mail it home wrapped in Mylar (Mylar does work to confound info doesn't it?)."

Only metalized Mylar. Regular Mylar is just another plastic, and transparent to radio waves. Think "Faraday cage".....same principle. Or you can just get an aluminum wallet. There are a lot of preventives out there.

48 posted on 11/11/2012 5:36:24 PM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: grumpygresh
"The virtual Berlin Wall is tightening in the US."

The virtual Berlin Wall, in place for a decade or so, is tightening even further around the US.

Clearly we are in the first couple of decad, or so, of the prophesied "...thousand years of darkness."

The shame of it is that no one "...did all that could be done" to prevent it".

49 posted on 11/11/2012 5:50:08 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Only metalized Mylar

_____________________

Remember folks, metalized mylar. Buy it by the truckload and trip a DHS investigation.


50 posted on 11/11/2012 6:18:22 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: combat_boots
alumiwallet

When your friend opened the wallet, did s/he have any problem with the contents falling out? I'd heard that was a common problem (thinking about buying one till I heard that). I think it's otherwise a great idea.

51 posted on 11/11/2012 6:50:37 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: jsanders2001
I have one I bought on Amazon for about $20 after reading about cyber criminals stealing credit card info using scanners at gas stations and coffee houses.

Good deal ... thanks for the tip!

52 posted on 11/11/2012 6:54:09 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: Chickensoup
"Remember folks, metalized mylar. Buy it by the truckload and trip a DHS investigation."

Or you could just buy a helium-filled balloon, let out the He, and wrap your cards in that......same stuff.

53 posted on 11/12/2012 3:32:46 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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